Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members, and in most cases it would not involve any unduly large expense for the host government. West African government were to pay the salaries of a hundred secondary-school teachers, for example, the total cost would to something like $300,000 a year, surely a drop in the bucket as budgets, even in Africa, are going these days. The United States would quite properly assume the cost of selection, transportation, and all expenses which would not be incurred by host government in hiring teachers from its own nationals...
Things came to a head at a meeting of satellite leaders in Moscow last winter. Hoxha called Khrushchev a "revisionist," one of the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon, since it means not going by the book. An enraged Khrushchev shouted back: "Comrade Hoxha, you have poured a bucket of dung on me, and you will have to wash...
...would be a cinch-all they would need was a thermometer and a stop watch. But they found out differently. "It depends on whether you shake the bottle," says Mollö-Christensen. "Remember that little twist the wine steward gives the bottle when he puts it in a bucket? It speeds the cooling...
...fuselage is usually just a tangled trellis of thin steel tubing. The cockpit is an open bucket seat, bolted prayerfully to the frame. The power plant is a sputtering, 40-h.p. engine borrowed from a motorcycle. Hovering motionless in midair, its 10-ft. rotor blades windmilling, the makeshift craft looks like an airborne Erector set. But in the hands of an experienced pilot, it can fly like a startled mosquito-straight up to 8,000 ft., forward, sideways or backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen...
...fifth International Automobile Show opened in Manhattan's huge Coliseum last week. More than 400 new models were on display from 40 automakers in ten nations. Even Detroit, which previously conceded the spotlight at the show to foreign competition, turned out in force to introduce its new bucket-seat brigade-the new generation of compacts that are built on the old body shells but emphasize sports-car interiors...